1980 Soviet Top League

Soviet Top League

Season	1980
Champions	Dinamo Kiev
Relegated	Karpaty Lvov, Lokomotiv Moscow
European Cup	Dinamo Kiev
Cup Winners' Cup	Dinamo Tbilisi
UEFA Cup	Spartak Moscow CSKA Moscow Zenit Leningrad
Matches played	306
Goals scored	690 (2.25 per match)
Top goalscorer	(20) Sergey Andreyev (SKA)
← 1979 1981 →

Statistics of Soviet Top League for the 1980 season.

Overview

It was contested by 18 teams, and Dynamo Kyiv won the championship.

League standings

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Dynamo Kyiv (C)	34	21	9	4	63	23	+40	51	Qualification for European Cup first round
2	Spartak Moscow	34	18	9	7	49	26	+23	45	Qualification for UEFA Cup first round
3	Zenit Leningrad	34	16	10	8	51	42	+9	42
4	Dinamo Tbilisi	34	16	7	11	51	32	+19	39	Qualification for Cup Winners' Cup first round
5	CSKA Moscow	34	13	12	9	36	32	+4	36	Qualification for UEFA Cup first round
6	Shakhtar Donetsk	34	13	9	12	45	40	+5	35
7	Chornomorets Odessa	34	13	9	12	37	37	0	35
8	Dinamo Minsk	34	11	12	11	41	42	−1	32
9	Ararat Yerevan	34	11	11	12	39	43	−4	32
10	SKA Rostov-on-Don	34	11	10	13	41	47	−6	32	Qualification for Cup Winners' Cup first round
11	Torpedo Moscow	34	10	11	13	28	32	−4	30
12	Kairat Alma-Ata	34	10	11	13	33	44	−11	30
13	Neftchi Baku	34	10	9	15	29	41	−12	29
14	Dynamo Moscow	34	9	14	11	32	33	−1	28
15	Kuban Krasnodar	34	9	10	15	32	43	−11	28
16	Pakhtakor Tashkent	34	9	8	17	26	43	−17	26
17	Karpaty Lviv (R)	34	9	8	17	23	46	−23	26	Relegation to First League
18	Lokomotiv Moscow (R)	34	8	9	17	34	44	−10	25

Source:
(C) Champions; (R) Relegated
Notes:

Results

Home \ Away	ARA	CHO	CSK	DYK	DMN	DYN	DTB	KAI	KAR	KUB	LOK	NEF	PAK	SHA	SKA	SPA	TOR	ZEN
Ararat Yerevan		0–0	0–2	3–3	2–1	1–1	0–1	0–1	2–0	1–1	2–1	3–0	5–2	2–0	1–1	2–1	1–0	0–0
Chornomorets Odessa	0–0		0–0	2–1	3–2	1–1	1–0	2–1	1–1	3–0	1–0	0–1	2–0	1–1	1–1	0–0	4–2	2–0
CSKA Moscow	1–0	2–0		2–2	1–1	0–0	0–2	2–2	2–0	0–0	0–1	0–0	0–0	1–3	3–1	0–0	4–1	2–1
Dynamo Kyiv	2–1	1–0	3–0		2–0	2–0	1–0	5–0	3–0	4–0	2–0	2–0	1–0	5–0	4–0	2–0	0–0	2–2
Dinamo Minsk	2–1	1–1	1–0	2–0		1–0	1–1	2–1	1–1	1–0	2–1	1–1	0–1	2–1	1–0	2–0	0–0	2–2
Dynamo Moscow	0–2	3–1	1–2	1–0	2–1		1–1	1–1	0–0	0–0	0–1	2–1	4–1	0–1	1–1	2–2	1–1	1–1
Dinamo Tbilisi	4–1	1–0	2–0	0–1	4–0	1–0		3–0	2–0	3–0	1–0	1–2	1–1	3–0	0–0	2–4	2–1	5–1
Kairat Alma-Ata	3–2	2–1	1–1	2–2	1–1	0–1	0–0		2–0	2–1	1–1	2–1	0–1	0–0	3–2	1–0	0–1	2–0
Karpaty Lviv	0–0	1–2	1–2	2–4	3–1	1–0	1–2	0–0		2–1	1–0	2–0	1–0	1–0	1–0	1–0	0–4	1–2
Kuban Krasnodar	2–0	4–0	0–1	1–1	3–2	0–3	2–2	2–0	3–0		0–0	2–1	3–0	1–0	0–1	0–0	1–0	0–2
Lokomotiv Moscow	2–2	0–1	0–2	1–1	1–3	3–0	0–0	1–0	3–0	1–1		3–1	0–1	1–1	2–3	1–2	0–0	2–4
Neftçi Baku	1–1	1–0	1–0	0–1	1–0	1–0	2–0	2–0	0–0	1–1	3–0		2–2	1–3	0–4	0–0	0–0	0–2
Pakhtakor Tashkent	1–2	0–1	3–0	0–1	1–0	1–2	0–3	1–0	1–0	1–1	0–2	2–2		0–0	2–1	1–2	0–0	1–0
Shakhtar Donetsk	5–1	1–0	1–2	0–1	2–2	3–2	3–0	0–1	1–1	3–0	2–2	2–1	2–1		2–0	0–2	2–0	5–2
SKA Rostov-on-Don	1–3	3–2	2–2	0–0	0–0	0–1	2–1	2–2	3–1	2–0	2–1	0–2	1–1	0–0		1–1	1–0	2–0
Spartak Moscow	5–0	2–4	0–1	1–0	1–0	0–0	2–1	3–0	3–0	2–1	2–1	3–0	2–0	2–0	2–1		1–0	1–1
Torpedo Moscow	1–0	1–0	1–1	1–2	0–0	1–1	2–0	2–2	0–0	2–1	1–2	1–0	1–0	1–0	0–1	0–2		2–0
Zenit Leningrad	2–0	3–0	1–0	2–2	5–3	0–0	3–2	1–0	1–0	2–0	2–0	1–0	1–0	1–1	2–2	1–1	3–1

Source:
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Top scorers

20 goals

• Sergey Andreyev (SKA Rostov-on-Don)

19 goals

• Oleg Blokhin (Dynamo Kyiv)

17 goals

• Ramaz Shengelia (Dinamo Tbilisi)

14 goals

• Yuriy Horyachev (Chornomorets)
• Aleksandr Tarkhanov (CSKA Moscow)

12 goals

• Vladimir Kazachyonok (Zenit)
• Valeriy Petrakov (Lokomotiv Moscow)

11 goals

• Revaz Chelebadze (Dinamo Tbilisi)

10 goals

• Andranik Khachatryan (Ararat)
• Pyotr Vasilevsky (Dinamo Minsk)

References

• Soviet Union - List of final tables (RSSSF)